I would not have expected a change of SSID and password to have that effect. Are you sure that you did not change any of the other settings which may have caused the problem?

I think it would be worth trying again with a different SSID and password to see what happens. If there is still a problem, please post back again so that we can be aware of it. Someone else may then be able to offer an explanation or help further.

Not sure from post so was your first and highest test by wifi or cable to router ? prior to ssid change

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The original high speed reading was on wireless as well. I did change channel but did the same again after I reset the Home Hub. Otherwise the only difference was the SSID and password.

Had a further thought - as the new SSID was the one I had used on the previous ADSL router , when my laptop "saw" this same SSID again it connected automatically. Perhaps I should have deleted the automatic connection to that SSID name and gone through the connect sequence again?

Thanks for all your comments - I thought I may be missing something obvious!

Managed to work out after a bit of playing around what was causing the drop in download speed after changing the SSID and network password. For info this was on a Windows XP laptop.

Because I changed the SSID and network password to one I had used on the previous ADSL router, once it was changed my laptop automatically connected to the router. Something I noticed was that it showed the wireless connection as 54Mbps - with the other settings it was showing 65Mbps. I then disconnected from this wireless connection (the connection changes to manual), and then hit the connect button again - it prompts for the network password which was entered and it then connected. Download speed was back up to around 35Mb and the wireless connection now shows 65Mbps. It looks like something was being remembered on my laptop about the old wireless connection with this SSID which was causing the problem.

The problem will only occur when you are using an SSID that you have used previously on your laptop with a previous router. So changing your new router to look like your old router is what might lead to this problem.

The solution is therefore after changing the SSID to simply open the Wireless Network Connection display in Windows, disconnect from your wireless connection, then connect to it again. Everything then works fine.

Ian , Good work , and will bear your info in mind. I changed my SSID / PAssword as test , and found no difference in speeds , but I did just choose random SSID and Password , not ones from Previous router..